>> his funeral today comes before the new year. >> and i'm going to ask to you look at your name and smile. charles was always smiling. i don't know if you know that or not, he was always smiling, gold teeth and all. look at the person on the left and smile at them. >> my name is charles. >> in -- butler's liver went to a fellow church member who was gravely ill. his pancreas and kidney are helping to make another family in the bay area's wish come true even as his own family

spends the holiday without him. >> we don't want to just get a t-shirt that says rest in peace and the next day things are normal. we want to address the violence on the street, providing options for individuals who have decide they don't care about their life or,s. >> reporter: while everyone waited for the funeral to get started here, there was a shooting a block away down the street. charles' cousin said it's an unfortunate example of why she was handing out the fliers at his funeral, to start a memorial fund to help people who are prone to violence get something else in their life other than guns. reporting in oakland. four people, including two police officers were injured this morning when car. it happened at 5:45 this morning along the t third line at the intersection of third and 22nd. the authorities say the lrv was not going at a high speed when it crashed. the two officers inside with the muni operator and a passenger were all taken to the

hospital with moderate to minor injuries. and a few hours later, at about 9:15 this morning, another muni lrv hit a vehicle and this involved a kay ingleside train hitting a car at the interception of -- intersection of third and king street. muni runs shuttle along the line until service resumed. >> police investigating a young hockey fan's claim she was attacked at a shark's game. the 16-year-old seen here on the left said she suffered a concussion after a woman hit her in the head during wednesday night's game. she now lives in the bay area and is from vancouver and was wearing a canucks jersey at the time. the woman accused of attacking her said she accidentally hit the girl while celebrating a sharks score. no one has been arrested. and a man who told police he drank 13 boars before get -- beers before getting into his car the day before christmas was arraigned for a deadly felony hit-and-run. watch martinez pleaded not guilty to the hit-and-run and

other charges in the accident that killed a man near petrero avenue and ceasar chavez street at 8:30 saturday morning. the 23-year-old is being held on $1 million bail. prosecutors say that martinez took off from the scene and then reported his car was stolen. he was arrested at his home a few days later. the highway patrol is investigating a deadly crash this morning in the south bay. authorities say just after 6:00 a.m., a truck went off of the roadway on a connector ramp between interstate 880 and highway 237 in milpitas. the coroner has not released the identity of the person who died by the -- but the chp said he was a 52-year-old man from san jose. a 24-year-old man was rescued this morning from a chute at a landfill. he works at the landfill there. before 8:00 a.m., he got it stuck in the loading part of the chute that inserts material for the landfill. more than 20 rescuers extricated him. he was taken to the hospital and is said to be in stable condition. finally, some wet weather today. not enough to help fill the

rain buckets but still a welcome sight, unless you happen to be driving. patty lee is here now and shows us what happened today on highway 101. >> reporter: you can tell how dense the fog is by looking behind me. you can't see the golden gate bridge. the visibility here is a half a mile. the roads are wet and that combination, frank, wreaked havoc across the bay area. a six-car accident this afternoon. turned northbound lanes on highway 101 into a parking lot as drivers trying to brake collided instead. >> and this is consistently wet. the first collision, we have it back up and people were not able to stop in time. >> reporter: routes are slick and from steady drizzle. the visibility dropped to a quarter mile causing traffic accidents everywhere. leave all, the state is experiencing a dry spell. >> it's been a horrible skier, which is e roning, considering last year was one of the best on record.

>> reporter: the family is planning to surf this weekend instead of ski and they not the only ones disappointed with the drizzle. >> i spoke with a couple of sprained. -- friends. they said the same thing. >> reporter: the battalion chief is worried about the lack of overall rain this winter. >> if we don't pick up rainfall, the moisture is going to be below minimum and we have a potential for a significant fire season. >> reporter: there was a bright side to the fog. the rain was light enough for the workers to allow them to press ahead and pour concrete at the 18th street restoration project. >> it's not good -- good news for us and not for california, but good news for construction. >> and it's still drizzling here and hasn't stopped all day. even in cities where there is fog in damp streets like oakland, reported an increase in traffic accidents and that is a testament to how big of an effect a little rain can have. patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news.

appears the weather is not causing problems on the way to lake tahoe. this is the view of interstate 80 this afternoon before sunset. despite some water on the roads and the lens and some snow on the roadside, the traffic was moving along well and caltransis not reporting any restrictions on interstate 80 or moe 50. >> and turning the fighting ali nie into the seating illini. the university of illinois football team served brunch at san francisco's saint anthony dining room today. it's part of the run-up to the craft hunger bowl. they participate in a bowl where they can give back and recipients were very thankful. >> and to make that and do a touchdown and that is enough for me. >> a little bit late, the ucla bruins fell and before serving

lunch. the kickoff is set tomorrow at at&t park. they donated last year more than 120,000 meals to the bay area hunger program. and the championship series in college football came under intensifier. tonight, we're learning that there could be big changes on the way. coming up at 5:45, the chairman of the bowl championship series tells us sluice whale of is being considered to change the current bowl system. a look at the wild swings on the dow jones this year as the roller coaster clicks back to the beginning and gets ready for 2012 ride. and the weak weather system we have been tracking is moving out of town. coming up, i'll show you the neighbors backed out into the -- tomorrow morning and the one direction temperatures will head this weekend.

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the crews demolish some of the old northbound lanes between high street and 42nd. the projects part of caltrans880 corridor improvement project, which is an eight-year effort to upgrade 15 miles of 880 between oakland and heyworth. and on to walt street, trading ended for the year. full web iss up and down. ktvus consumer editor tom vacar is in oakland with analysis and projects. tom. >> reporter: we're looking forward if it all goes right. it could be let's at the end of the tunnel. if not, it could be the headlights of the train. the stock markets experienced wild fluctuations all year long. >> and may be the market didn't go down this year when you mention the housing and the job situation in the united states. you know, at the end of the year, we see both starting to firm up. >> reporter: last year, they were 620 points lower than today's close, a again of 5

1/2% minus 3 1/2% for inflake. >> it's gone up a little bit but took a big plunge from where it was three to four years ago. >> reporter: the s&p500 was flat for the year and the nasdaq market lost 2%. >> and that is a gamble will, an extreme gamble at the moment. >> if the economy improved, would you consider it as less of a gamble? >> i think so. >> and paired with other investments, i think the days of putting your money in the stock market are probably gone. >> reporter: while stocks have take know a beating the last few years, the plain fact is that two out of three people have stocks in their retirement accounts. >> if you look at the struggles this past year in europe or the u.s., the performance of the stock market is pretty good. >> reporter: and where are we going? >> all things considered, markets tend to do well in some

presidential election years. >> reporter: and rarely have we seen turn ole in jobs and housing as today and we'll look backward and forward on those critical indicators coming up at 6. tom vacar, consumer editor for ktvu channel news. occupy protestors plan to demonstrate this year at the tournament of rose parade in pasadena and talking about the constitution after the official event finishes. organizers are working with police and parade officials and don't plan any disruption of the official event. the highway patrol is investigating the death of a stanislaus crime scene investigator killd this morning in the line of duty. the 46-year-old mary dona he arrived at 6:30 this morning to help investigate the scene of a drive-by shooting in houston. as she was getting out of her car, she was hit by an suv. the driver did stop, though, and is cooperating with

investigators. >> it's not often we lose a member here in the sheriff's office in the line of duty, it's a tragedy when it happens. in this case, it's a tragic accident. >> reporter: she's the mother of a 12-year-old son and was a nine-year veteran. the crash happened late wednesday night in livermore. the 25-year-old ran multiple redlights before crashing into a mini van. the police say the man was not licensed to ride a motorcycle. and state fish and game officers accused them of illegally poaching fish and crab. the department said that the two men, both of san jose, have been on the game warden's radar for more than a year. they're accused of catching sturgeon and dungeness crab with a recreation fishing license and illegally selling their catch on the black market.

as it stands today, the crab season along the mendocino, humboldt, and del norte coast won't begin until january 15th. the state fish and game officials say the crab in those waters won't be big enough to harvest for two more weeks. when the season begins, the crab boats from oregon and washington state are expected to flood the area competing with smaller boats from here this bay area. and we saw some moisture and calling it rain. up and telling me it's not quite rain, right? >> and that is in between the drizzle and rain. and basically, a few clouds and heavy amounts of drizzle and some spotty showers that i didn't see across parts of the region. can you see the amounts not to impress but a few hundred of an inch and in mountain view, .0 few, one of the highest to find. san jose, .02 and san francisco, barely measurable at .01. we know it's been a very dry december until today. we have three days of

measurable rainfall in san francisco and they're showing up here on the 11th, 12th, and the 15th. the .01 and that means this is shaping up to be the third dryest december in san francisco and they go back to the 1800s and so far, san francisco taking up .13 inches and we won't add anymore rainfall to the rain gauges the next 24 hours. maybe spotty drizzle. the current temperature is updated. the temperatures right now, santa rosa, 54 degrees. reporting partly cloudy skies. watch out for the dense fog coast side along the golden gate bridge, currently 54; mountain view, the 60s and mild there and san jose in the upper 50s, about 58 and with that satellite and radar system, we're not expecting much but that produced a cloud cover and some pockets of drizzle or some light showers and this is heading out of town. as we expand, you can see the

storm track and that is developing to our north and we can tell you, as a result, it will be dry into the weekend on saturday and into sunday. that will translate to 30s in santa rosa, napa around 36 and to 38 degrees out to fairfield. san jose, about 43 and san francisco in the upper 40s. watch out, again, some areas of dense fog coast side and around the bay to start out your saturday. if you are heading to lake tahoe, check out blue canyon. they're reporting light rain and a current temperature around 40 degrees. here's the plan this weekend for saturday and partly to mostly cloudy skies, on the mild side to the sierra in the upper 40s and on sunday, partly cloudy skies, the temperatures starting out in the 20 degrees mark. the readings back up into the mid- to upper 40s and coming up, i will show you where it is the next 12 to 24 hours and i will break out the warmest day of the weekend and the new

year's eve forecast coming up in just a few minutes. and $17 billion, what the state needs to repair and strengthen the levees in the delta. the department of water resources said more than half of the levees in the sacramento and san juan rivers could fail. the engineers long warned a major quake or heavy runoff could breach the levees. the new report said that many levees, some up to 150 years old, could fail from simple erosion and some ground seepage. why the increase in the number of military funerals performd this year has nothing to do with what is happening in iraq or afghanistan. also, a strength of fires here, nearly 20 cars too much said overnight in los angeles. one fire damaged the former home of a rock'n'roll legend. and north korea officially has a new military leader. the message he set out about his country's position towards south korea.

>> firefighters in los angeles are hoping surveillance video will surface to help them catch an arsonist who set 19 car fires in hollywood and west hollywood overnight. again, coming in after midnight, it didn't stop until 4:15 in the morning. the residents scramble to safety as the intense flames spread to hopes and apartment buildings. there is a $35,000 award being

offered to information leading to an arrest. a former west hollywood home of rocker jim morrisson was one of the first torched overnight. it started in the fourth car parked outside of the home and quickly spread to the house itself. a firefighter was injured in a fall from the ladder while balling the fire. the house was built in 1922, the inspiration for his song "love street." the number of military funerals performed by the national guard rose by 10%. the increase actually is not due to service members dieing in iraq or afghanistan. the military said that it's actually the accelerated number of deaths of world war ei veterans and the growing awareness by families that they're entitled to a military funeral. the national guard performed at funerals for approximately 136,000 military veterans this year while another 90,000 funerals were performed by active military units. north korea's new leader officially controls his country's military. kim jong-un has become the great leader, controlling a

massive army of more than 1 million troops in a message of continuity from the kim jong-il era, north korea warned there will be no softening of its position towards south korea. official morning for kim jong- il ended yesterday with his funeral. and more deadly clashes erupted in syria as aspect government protestors filled the streets there. an estimated 500,000 people protested across syria. at least 35 were killed by armed security forces. meantime, a team of 60 arab- league monitors are in syria to monitor a peace plan agreed on last week. it requires syrian forces to withdraw from cities, release thousands of detainees and start talks with the opposition. at least 11 people are dead tonight after a seclean hit southeast india. cyclone was centered in the indian ocean. trees were uprooted and homes damaged. most of the deaths were from collapse of walls and

electrocution. the meteorological department is expecting the storm to move west and weaken. it's the end of an era here in freemont now that a city leader respected by supporters and opponents passed away. we'll show you the history and legacy. and the campaign trail of heating up. ahead of next week's caucus. how candidates are trying to set themselves a part in iowa from their competitors.

>> fair and highly ethical. some of the words being used to describe the freemont mayor bob wasserman who died yesterday from undisclosed health problems. during his time in office, he dealt with several high-profile

issues with mixed results. despite big changes in the city, supporters and opponents say wasserman him never changed. robert? >> reporter: very true. we're at freemont city hall. the flags across the city are at half-staff in honor of a man directly involved with city leadership since the 19 is of thes. >> and -- 1970s. >> the place we produce electric cars. >> reporter: for many years, bob wasesserman was the public face of freemont serving 15 years before retiring and becoming a city councilman in 1992, and mayor in 2004. that era ended thursday when the 77-year-old wasserman passed away. the police chief and family friend said that wasserman never changed his leadership steel. >> he had a high ethical standard that he set for himself and the men and women working with hep. >> reporter: wasserman dealt with hot issues, fighting to keep the numi plant from closing and helped bring in tesla. he tried to unsuccessfully

bring the as to freemont and opponents remember his fair attitude. >> a lot of people take politics personal, and i think he was very good at keeping that out of it and looking at the issues and respecting the person, and you know, whatever their belief was on a particular issue. >> reporter: wasserman helps freemont's overall business climate, although the saddlerack night club is a thriving popular attract. the owner remembers how wasserman overcomes civil reluctance. >> and this is -- a win-win for both of us. and i think it's rare when you are working with the city. >> reporter: for many, wasserman's main legacy is pulling together a community where up to 170 languages can be heard. >> and i think wasserman has probably done more for the nurturing and really bringing it into the fold. be engaged and involved. >> reporter: a memorial is planned for bob wasserman next friday and it will have to be held in a place holding a lot of people. live in freemont, robert s mass

and tsunami in japan forced the closure of a san francisco landmark. the market in japan town is closing partly due to japanese food prices which sky rocketed after the disaster. the market has been doing business on post street since the 1906 quake here that survived the family's internmentence is world war ii. the third generation wants to retire and a fourth generation doesn't want to run the store. the store closes tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. some residential customers will see moderate increases in rates starting on january 1st. depending on your usage, your average bill will increase from $3 to $5. they will go to repairing and replacing aging infrastructure. to election 2012. with days to go before the iowa caucus, candidates are criss crossing the state and lowing voters.

as reporter emily schmidt tells us, one hopeful is taking a break before the big event. yo welcome -- . >> welcome to iowa. >> campaigning is crowded. >> and -- >> reporter: those regular folk are harder to find in the media frame. >> come on in. the cameras don't mind. >> reporter: this is important in a state where nearly all of the candidates have been a front runner at some point. a new poll shows mitt romney and ron paul within the margin of error as front runners with rick santorum gaining support and newt gingrich slipping. >> i'm with you. >> reporter: gingrich has been hit by negative ads claiming he lobbied by freddie mac and is thinking of disputing the claims by buying air time himself and candidates are focused on endorse met. >> america's watching iowa. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie backed mitt romney in west des moines before leaving to campaign in new hampshire. ron paul is taking a break from

the campaign altogether heading home to texas on monday. most of the other candidates scheduled to keep them in iowa. if they hope for the kind of jackpot des moines saw this week, when a multimillion lottery ticket was claimed two hours before it was set to expire, iowa has a habit of springing surprises. in washington, ohmemily schmidt. -- i'm emily schmidt. >> at the request of congressional leaders, president obama is delaying the request to increase the debt limit. they appeared in public yesterday to pay their respect at the pearl harbor memorial. the white house announced it will wait a few more days to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase. congress is allowing 15 days to object but will be in section until mid-january. the delay won't disrupt government operations. from verizon to angry customers, it can hear you now. the wireless phone company backed away from a plan to charge's new did 2 fee. a verizon statement said that feedback from upset customers prompted the decision to drop what it was calling a convenience fee. at thafee was scheduled to

start on january -- this fee was scheduled to start on january 15th and would have applied to every non-automatic or credit card deb it made online or over the phone. the company owning the l.a. times and the chicago trib europe is expected to remain in bankruptcy until next summer. a judge rejected the direction up on company's reorganization plan. its new plan is not likely to be considered until next may. the company owns more than 20 television and radio stations. the colorado man admitted to planting a hole made bomb on the recent anniversary of the columbine school shootings. as we first reported in april, 65-year-old earl albert moore was arrested days after the bombs discovery in a mall on the 12th anniversary of the columbine massacre. today, moore pleaded guilty to one count of arson and he didn't intend to hurt anyone, but drained the propane tanks connected to the insend area device before moving it. moore will be 7ence to -- sentenced to 30 years in prison. >> more fallout over chevron

over a leaky well in brazil. they have imposed a fine. they don't specify the amount of the fine but follows signs of more than $32 million in imposed by brazil earlier this month. thousands of wells of oil leaked since early november from rio de janeiro. san ramon-based chevron has no comment. the extension of the panama canal is raising fears in southern california. it will be widened and deepened by 2014, to allow freighters to bypass west coast ports. one economist tells the los angeles times the port of los angeles could lose 25% of the cargo container traffic. he said that could end up in a loss of jobs for dockworkers and truckers. ginormous and man caves made the list of the most annoying phrases of 2011. find out the other phrases that made that list. also, why this giant sink hole may force work crews to move dozens of stuff. and the biggest party of

the year. how that crystal ball was created before the big drop at new york's time square.

>> a water main break created a giant sink hole in eastern pennsylvania that is affecting the living and the dead. officials say the hole was threatening dozens of graves nearby. dozens of resident his to evacuate from their hopes.

the officials haven't decided whether the grave needs to be removed. not clear what happened first, the water main break or the sinkhole. and final touches are put on the new year's eve tradition that people enjoyed more more -- for more than $100 years now. we're talking about the dropping of the ball in new york's time square. workers say the iconic ball was ready to help ring in the new year. it was crafted by waterford crystal. four years ago, waterford doubled the size from 60 to 12 feet in diameter. it's the biggest crystal installation in the world. the u.s. census bureau estimates the nation's population will reach 313 million people at the start of the new year and that is up almost 1% from one year ago. the government number corruptiones predict one birth every eight seconds and one death every 12 secs. and the officials say immigration adds one person to the u.s. population every 46 seconds. and the list of the most annoying phrases is out and there is a chance you heard one

and the phrases baby bump, occupy, ginormous, us and the now normal are among some superior university. the phrase that garnered the most nominations was amazing. the university said that word is often annoyingly misused. >> and a new survey suggests that san francisco spent the year sobering up a bit. the website daily beast released the annual list of the nation's drunkest cities. san francisco slipped from third to 22nd. last year, 8.2% of san franciscans responded to the sorry have a and said that they were heavy drinkers. that number fell to 6.1% this year. this year, boston reached the top of the list of the cities where people drink the most. after a year of marriage, singer katy perry and comedian russell brand are calling it quits. they walked down the aisle last

october in india. brand issued a statement saying, quote, i will always adore her and we'll remain friends. it follows weeks of speculation about their marriage. they spent christmas a part and both were seen without their wedding rings. there is word that etta james was taken off of a resp rater and is breathing on her own. the blood pressure returned to normal. he's been diagnosed with terminal leukemia and is being careful at her home in receiverside. she's best known for her hit "at last." even as the san francisco zoo misses for the messing squirrel monkey we told you about at the top of the newscast, they're welcoming two arrivals. two sicilian donkeys named pablo and lupah are settling in in the corral of the children's petting zoo. the natives are on the small side. they're only three feet high and they're very friendly to humans. they can also live in captivity for up to 35 years. could college football change to a post season playoff

system? the head of the championship series told us in an exclusive interview. >> and we're taking a live look outside right now. we still have lots of cloud covers and areas of dense fog. coming up, the fog is focused tomorrow morning, the one direction temperatures are heading this weekend. and have the new year's eve forecast.

>> oakland's popular parkway theatre pub will soon reopen in a new like. the theatre on park boulevard

abruptly went dark in 2009. now, the parkway's owner signed a new 21-year lease uptown at a former glass factory. they want to turn the area into an arts district. the parkway is expected to open in late summer or early fall. and it's possible some big changes could be coming to college football bowl games, including a possible playoff system. the washington d.c. reporter scott mcfarland talked exclusively to the head of the bowl championship series and tells us the bcs is now looking at dozens of dif rip proposals. >> reporter: the executive tells me they're considering 40 to 50 different proposals to change the post season system. possibly including a play-off to determine the champion. the current bowl system includes dozens of games all on tv at stadiums nationwide. and one game means anything. the championship. the two participants like voters and a computer system, wildly unpopular with any fans.

the executive in charge of the bowl championship series revealed the college presidents will consider changes to it next month. >> and i expect there will be 40 or 50 ideas. they'll roll-up there sees and hey will come up with what is best for the game. >> reporter: the u.s. house is considering a new law and requiring football change to a play-off system in the u.s. justice department is investigating the system to, too, the bcs said, potentially for violation of antio trust law. they favor a handful of schools, most public colleges have no chance of playing for a title and feeling the pressure from government to bcs spent a quarter of a million lobbying washington this year alone. >> frankly, we think the government has higher priorities and legislating the post season of college football. >> it's political football, college football had a presence in washington, d.c., for many years. they're spending more on lobbying in this current year

than they have before. >> reporter: even if the government does force changes in the bcs and told it would not happen until 20 tape on the the earliest and not none of this explains the fiesta bowl at stanford. that is part of the problem. that game should be part of the play-off system. in washington, scott mcfarland, ktvu, chapel 2 news. an update to the top story. the messing monkey from the san francisco zoo. a private donor raised the reward for the safe return to $5,000. the zoo officials are worried the old squirrel monthy is under severe stress and you won't be able to get the special diet he needs to stay healthy. whoever took the small monkey, could be in danger as well and saying he has short teeth and a bite could lead to a serious infect. >> a georgia woman claims the brother's escape from alcatraz in 1962 and survived. marie said her son's plan to visit alcatraz june 11th, the fiftyth anniversary of the escape and never claims to have seen her brothers after the

breakout, but believes they are still alive. they were sentenced to prison in 1958 for robbing a bank. >> the only reason they put them in alcatraz was because they could not keep them anywhere. >> frank morris drowned in the bay and it was never found. scientists stationed at the south pole call it a christmas miracle. the temperature rose to nearly 10 degrees and snow actually fill from the skies christmas day. that is the inch of precipitation all year and that is in the form of teeny ice crystals. >> and just looks so cold out there. and talk about the wet weather. enough to wet the roadways and also -- the waters the garden as well and nothing

significant. take a look outside of the time lapse, looking toward the estuariy and in the distance. we have the low clouds and fog impacting the visibility. and that will be a concern later on tonight. and as you wrap up 2011. the current numbers, the temperatures, most thoughts are in the 50s. santa rosa, 54 and livermore in the upper 50s and mountain view, one of the warmer spots checking in around 62 degrees and this is going to be weak and living up to the expectation. no more raindrops and some, i should mention we will have a drizzle developing coast around the bay. for tonight, that has been a theme over the past few hours and we're going to hold on to that for tonight. patchy morning fog could be locally dense and as that high rebuilds after the temperatures back up, it will feel mild out there and the warmest locations will be approaching the med, possibly the upper 60s by

sunday. here's our forecast model showing you, some overcast busting tomorrow morning. not a lot here and i suspect there will be some patchy, dense fog to start out saturday morning around the bay and for someone in the enlap valleys and the afternoon hours, partly cloudy skies, a few my clouds can approach the region and that is reflected in the forecast. partly cloudy, temperatures will be talking about the low 60s for tomorrow afternoon. and this is a look at some of the highs. santa rosa around 63 and san francisco at 59. san jose, topping out at 64 and livermore, 62 degrees and for the new year's eve festivities, the calendar approaching december 31st. i'm expecting the patchy fogs around the coast and bay and by midnight to the low 40s. the extended forecast, the weekend in vow and you will notice the temperatures warm up a little bit for sunday.

as we say hello to 2012 and they were still waiting for the rain clouds and significant rainfall today. it was basically a weak system and nothing showing up just yet in the long-realm weather maps. maybe thursday or friday of next week and i wouldn't count on it. >> how far out do they go? >> and is to have more doubt. looking at the forecast map like that. as we head into january, i would expect more rainfall. >> and let's hope so. >> yeah. >> thank you, mark. and. even as the u.s. is scaling back. september is the first step in china's plans to build a permanent space station. china plans to send -- to the room but the verbatim goal was colonizing the lunar -- >> american airlines parent company will drop amr stock before the opening bell next

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>> tomorrow, it's part of a big drop to replenish food banks in the area. the san francisco food bank got a there ofy of food, lucky and save mart in the giant shopping basket that you see there. the greet grocery stores presented the $130,000 check to the food bang, which will help munkry people throughout the area. >> we have 215 pantries around san francisco and marine. the other way it can go is places like saint anthony's where right now, we have football players from the two college teams serving meals. >> the money and food donated by lucky and save mart today is enough to provide 880,000-moles for people in need. coming -- meals for people in need. could arnold schwarzenegger be reconciling with maria shriver? why some say the couple could

be getting back together. >> nancy pelosi is downplaying comments made by her daughter.

>> good evening, i'm in tonight for julie haner. >> a search is underway in san francisco for a monkey that was stolen from an exhibit at san francisco zoo and even though that is really cute, it can be dangerous if provoked. jineannedela vega has more on how it happened. >> reporter: his name was banana sam and he was given to the zoo after funding ran out at a local research facility and tone business a $5,000 award is being offered for his return. >> reporter: curators say the monkeys are acting stress because they know one of the companions is